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Australian Shopping Websites
E-stores in Australia have never really taken off because most attempt to mimic the American stores but without the massive amounts of content and without the economies of scale. I honestly thought that the Australian market had no place for E-stores, but now working off the success of EBay stores selling large volume high discount…
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Fighting spam with open source software
This article is based on my own experiences, and should be directly applicable to anyone fighting spam for a small to medium sized organization using open source software. It will be useful for people setting up home rigs and setups. We found that out of the box SpamAssassin was horribly ineffective and was only stopping…
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HOWTO: Running a second postfix instance for inserting disclaimers
For the love of god why? Postfix by default allows you to override certain configuration elements using the “-o” flag to smtpd. This means you can set up separate smtpd daemons in your master.cf file and do funky things like have a separate postfix instance that uses a different content_filter. The default setup of amavis…
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Peugeot 405 T16 Pikes Peak mountain climb
An incredible video of a Peugeot dominating a large mountain. The sound of the engine and responsiveness is incredible. Climb Dance on google video.
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Vista and the damage its going to do to computer hardware
A fascinating article on what Vista is going to do to PC hardware. Especially of interest to Windows Zealots to which I know there are a lot (and some of my closest friends – *sniff*). I don’t consider myself a linux zealot but the implications this has for linux in the future make me very…
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CAPTCHA!
As recommended by a friend I have started using HN_CAPTCHA to validate humans. The adventure began when I noticed that the amount of money I had in my account was rapidly dwindling away to nothing. Now my hosting provider is amazingly cheap so I initially had no explanation as to what was causing the approximately…